Is there any way to get both headers and body for a cURL request using PHP? I found that this option:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
If you specifically want the Content-Type
, there's a special cURL option to retrieve it:
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$content_type = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE);
Just in case you can't / don't use CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION
or other solutions;
$nextCheck = function($body) {
return ($body && strpos($body, 'HTTP/') === 0);
};
[$headers, $body] = explode("\r\n\r\n", $result, 2);
if ($nextCheck($body)) {
do {
[$headers, $body] = explode("\r\n\r\n", $body, 2);
} while ($nextCheck($body));
}
One solution to this was posted in the PHP documentation comments: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-exec.php#80442
Code example:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
// ...
$response = curl_exec($ch);
// Then, after your curl_exec call:
$header_size = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE);
$header = substr($response, 0, $header_size);
$body = substr($response, $header_size);
Warning: As noted in the comments below, this may not be reliable when used with proxy servers or when handling certain types of redirects. @Geoffrey's answer may handle these more reliably.
If you don't really need to use curl;
$body = file_get_contents('http://example.com');
var_export($http_response_header);
var_export($body);
Which outputs
array (
0 => 'HTTP/1.0 200 OK',
1 => 'Accept-Ranges: bytes',
2 => 'Cache-Control: max-age=604800',
3 => 'Content-Type: text/html',
4 => 'Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:37:13 GMT',
5 => 'Etag: "359670651"',
6 => 'Expires: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:37:13 GMT',
7 => 'Last-Modified: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 23:54:35 GMT',
8 => 'Server: ECS (cpm/F9D5)',
9 => 'X-Cache: HIT',
10 => 'x-ec-custom-error: 1',
11 => 'Content-Length: 1270',
12 => 'Connection: close',
)'<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Example Domain</title>...
See http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.httpresponseheader.php
Many of the other solutions offered this thread are not doing this correctly.
\r\n\r\n
is not reliable when CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION
is on or when the server responds with a 100 code.\n
for new lines.CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE
is also not always reliable, especially when proxies are used or in some of the same redirection scenarios.The most correct method is using CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION.
Here is a very clean method of performing this using PHP closures. It also converts all headers to lowercase for consistent handling across servers and HTTP versions.
This version will retain duplicated headers
This complies with RFC822 and RFC2616, please do not suggest edits to make use of the mb_
string functions, it is incorrect!
$ch = curl_init();
$headers = [];
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// this function is called by curl for each header received
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION,
function($curl, $header) use (&$headers)
{
$len = strlen($header);
$header = explode(':', $header, 2);
if (count($header) < 2) // ignore invalid headers
return $len;
$headers[strtolower(trim($header[0]))][] = trim($header[1]);
return $len;
}
);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
print_r($headers);
is this what are you looking to?
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'));
$response = curl_exec($ch);
list($header, $body) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $response, 2);